1st Edition

Challenges and Reforms in Gulf Higher Education Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic and Assessing Future Implications

Edited By Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan, John McAlaney Copyright 2024
244 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume explores the educational reforms and challenges in higher education in the Gulf countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring a truly global spread of contributors and perspectives from countries such as Bahrain, India, Georgia, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, the book navigates experience-based and practice-linked research spectrum of the ramifications of the... Read more

Introduction

Part 1 – Understanding Regional Higher Education Reforms in a COVID-19

Context

 

Chapter 1

Potential Reforms in the GCC Higher Education Post COVID-19

Hajar Mahfoodh and Rabab Isa Saleh Almuqahwi

 

Chapter 2

Pandemic Upsurge: Insights from Higher Education Reforms in the Gulf

Muhammad Rehan Shaukat and Abdul Sami 

 

Chapter 3

Toward a Self-Sustainable Higher Education Quality Assurance System: NFCFFE Model for Higher Education Quality Improvement and Assurance

Radha Krishan Sharma

 

Chapter 4

Pandemic Challenges of Higher Education: Reconsidering Core Values

Mariam Orkodashvili

 

Chapter 5

Higher Education in the COVID-19 Environment: ICT-Based Perspective for GCC Countries

Umara Noreen, Attayah Shafique, and Bello Musa Yakubu

 

Chapter 6

Application of Risk Management on COVID-19 by Universities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

Wan Norhayate Wan Daud, Fakhrul Anwar Zainol, Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan, and Joanna Soraya Abu Zahari

 

Chapter 7

Directions in Gulf Higher Education: Conclusion

John McAlaney and Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan

 

Part 2 – Reframing Higher Education Reforms

 

Chapter 8

An Empirical Analysis of Oman’s Public and Private HEIs Student's Behavioural Intention (BI) in Using

E-learning during COVID-19

Mohit Kukreti, Amitabh Mishra, and Vishal Jain

 

Chapter 9

Transforming Online Teaching of a First-Year Business Course: An Autoethnographic Reflection of Managing Teaching and Learning amidst the Pandemic in the Gulf Region

Mary Precy Aguilar-Lego and Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan

 

Chapter 10

University of Buraimi in Oman: Pandemic Lessons and Initiatives for Education Reform from Instructors’ Perspectives

Ibrahim Al Shamsi and Boumedyen Shannaq

 

Chapter 11

The Role of Internal Crisis Communication on Faculty Members Implementation of Blended

Learning Practices in the Gulf

Ridwan Adetunji Raji and Bahtiar Mohamad

 

Chapter 12

Impact of Job-related Stress on Professional and Personal Life during Coronavirus Pandemic

Vishal Jain, Amitabh Mishra, and Mohit Kukreti

 

Chapter 13

COVID-19 and the New Normal: Re-Imagining the Future of Higher Education

Khuram Shahzad, Muhammad Rehan Shaukat, and Syeeda Shafiya

 

Chapter 14

Gulf Higher Education Reforms vis-à-vis the Pandemic: Conclusion

Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan and John McAlaney

Biography

Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan is Professor and Dean, City Graduate School, City University Malaysia and Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK.

John McAlaney is Chartered Psychologist and Professor in Psychology, Bournemouth University, UK.